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Microparticle Manipulation by Standing Surface Acoustic Waves with Dual-frequency Excitations
Published on: August 21, 2018
On the far-field computation of acoustic radiation forces
1Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA.
Abstract:
It is known that the steady acoustic radiation force on a scatterer due to incident time-harmonic waves can be calculated by evaluating certain integrals of velocity potentials over a sphere surrounding the scatterer. The goal is to evaluate these integrals using far-field approximations and appropriate limits. Previous derivations are corrected, clarified, and generalized. Similar corrections are made to textbook derivations of optical theorems.
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